These shop sketches are chock-full of brilliantly written absurdity. I think at one point Fry's character says his father is "upstairs in the cellar."

@RalphBrooker-gn9iv

2 ай бұрын

By Godfrey you’re right, lovelet.

I love how him being supposedly terminally ill is never touched on again.

@seamussmyth1928

Жыл бұрын

He's just a dying man, not a big deal

@bennylloyd-willner9667

9 ай бұрын

​@@seamussmyth1928yup, and also his father can run the shop when the dying is in the style of a non-future eventington. That is if dad can come downstairs from the cellar.😊

Stephen Fry is without question the comedic master here, but it can't be dispited that it would not work without Hugh Laurie's convincing performance as the dumbfounded customer 😂 Love these guys!

I swear Steven Fry has the odd day when he is really like this lol

"There is a sweet shop not two miles away from here" Considering the way these sketches go, I'm willing to bet that means the shop is more like ten miles away, _not_ two miles in other words.

One of the funniest sketches I've ever seen

@genericuser2339

22 күн бұрын

You like the “good morning”’sketch then when fry believes he is now a fully activated Russian agent all Laurie is trying to do is buy a model aeroplane.

@WarrenPeace007

22 күн бұрын

@@genericuser2339 Yes indeed

Anyone else noticed he was polishing his hand at the start of the sketch? lol! This whole scene is an example of the divide between American comedy and British comedy, in this scene nearly every phrase is a joke and crafted so well, no canned laughter track, or stupid slap stick or one liners, just very witty wordplay.

@ians5597

3 жыл бұрын

In the published book of these sketches, Stephen Fry is "polishing the back of his hand for no other reason than it is uproariously funny". Correctly-correctington, as they say at The Sorbonne 😊

@PointsofData

2 жыл бұрын

Abbot and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, Charlie Chaplin, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Robin Williams, Bo Burnham, Stephen Colbert...are all American comedians who have had a massive influence on comedy. Really insulting and small minded dude. Ffs Abbot and Costellos most famous sketch *is entirely witty wordplay* . And Mr. Bean, yknow, one of Britain's most beloved TV characters? _THE COMEDY OF HIS CHARACTER AND SHOW IS ALMOST ENTIRELY STRAIGHT SLAPSTICK_

@tomlarham8233

Жыл бұрын

​@@PointsofData I hate to point this out, but Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin were both English, rather bringing British humour to America than the other way round.

@PointsofData

Жыл бұрын

@@tomlarham8233 Fair fam. But I'd argue both still support the point I was making, in a different way. Laurel is best known for being part of Laurel and Hardy, with the American comic Oliver Hardy, so it's difficult to argue the American humor is worse when both an American and an Englishman were working the same routine in different roles (that they individually agreed on). And Charlie Chaplin is credited with popularizing slapstick and became world famous. I mean, he couldn't really use witty wordplay in a silent film, could he? Still like both of them for the record. Slapstick is a fun genre of humor when done right.

Upstairs in the cellar.

You'll humour a dying man xd

You've got to love Stephen's coda to this sketch: “Men are such bastards…”

this sounds like quora answers lol.

The man is a genius.

@brettd2318

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephengriffiths4901 Correct sir, my mistake.

The Opal Fruit could have been ‘on’ him in some other prepositional sense, ie. stuck to the skin of his back.

"Would you like an open fruit?" I think I'm already looking at one. "I won't be long." So I've heard...

@7an7ara

3 жыл бұрын

*Opal fruit

I would really like to know if there is a second part of this sketch and if Stephen and Laurie finally were engaged.

x Also, x> 90,000 So Hugh was wrong when he thought that 40,000

@JonGunnarssonDotA

3 жыл бұрын

The lower bound is 90, not 90,000.

@saviodias3803

3 жыл бұрын

@@JonGunnarssonDotA lol you're probs right... I assumed they meant 90 thousand when they kept saying 90. Humour.

Hilaire Belloc ... sigh ... who really "gets" that regardless of everything else. So I start giggling there and miss much of the rest.